The good news is that most cases of whooping cough are preventable with DTaP vaccines in childhood and Tdap shots at age 11 or 12 and during pregnancy. (Both are combination vaccines for diptheria, ...

State health officials are reminding everyone to get vaccinated for whooping cough as cases continue to rise, surpassing last ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases ...

At least 8,064 whooping cough cases have been recorded nationwide. Whooping cough cases are on the rise in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana health officials are sounding the alarm over a sharp rise in whooping cough cases, with the number of infections already surpassing last year’s total—and the ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti ...

Whooping cough cases are increasing nationwide. Two Louisiana babies have died with whooping cough this year as the state trends toward a record number ... cases are on the rise through the ...

The Pasadena Public Health Department announced the infection on Thursday as whooping cough cases continue to rise across the United ... surged in California to levels not seen since the start ...

In 2021, when people were social distancing and in lockdown during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were barely 2,000 reported cases of whooping cough. An Alarming Rise in First Few ...

Among the many contagious diseases circulating right now — RSV, walking pneumonia and norovirus among them — is one that you may not have heard of for a while, or perhaps had assumed was an ...

In 2024, there were more than 35,000 cases of whooping cough in the United States, the highest in more than a decade. Ten people died, including six babies less than 1 year old. Given the rise in ...